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Write to get it all on paper/screen, and don't worry about going back to fix things just yet. As better ideas/words come to mind, add a note in your draft to investigate the ideas when you're ready for a review/edit.

You'll sabotage yourself if you keep going back to fix things as you're writing, though.

There's a time and place for critique and edit, and that time comes only after the first draft is complete. Also typically a good idea to put some time between writing and editing. Not only will you avoid self-sabotage, but you'll often notice glaring errors in your writing, which you might have glossed over without noticing due to your familiarity with a paragraph or chapter.

The creative process often ends through abandonment, rather than perfection. Most of us will go back to our earlier works and cringe, no matter how proud we were at the time of their creation. Do what you can to make it excellent during your editing phase, but realize there will come a point where you just have to publish - otherwise you'll have diminishing returns on your time and energy invested in editing.

Keep up the writing, and maybe some of those revision ideas will turn into a sequel or new story in the same genre.

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